You touch a nonmagical weapon. Until the spell ends, that weapon becomes a magic weapon with a +1 bonus to Attack Rolls and Damage Rolls. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th Level or higher, the bonus increases to +2.
Is magic weapon a bonus action?
You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, you can make one attack with it as a bonus action on each of your turns.
Can a magic weapon give you a bonus to damage?
Magic weapons, special abilities, and other factors can grant a bonus to damage. Hence, by a strict reading of the rules you can stack any modifiers you have both for attack and for damage rolls. For the former case, the word appropriate leads to include any kind of bonuses the weapon (or ammo) gives, unless the description specify the exceptions.
What does a magic weapon do in dungeons and Dragons?
A magic weapon gives you a bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls only if its description says it does. Every magic weapon can bypass resistances and immunities to damage from nonmagical attacks, but only certain magic weapons are more accurate and damaging than their nonmagical counterparts.
Can a mace be used as a magical weapon?
The mace does not deal “magical damage”; the +1 bonus to damage from the magic weapon is a bonus to whatever damage the mace would ordinarily deal, which is bludgeoning. However, any damage dealt by the mace will bypass the defenses some monsters have against ordinary weapons. All weapons with magical enchantments are magical weapons.
Is there such a thing as magical damage?
There is no such thing as “magical damage”. The list of damage types includes “radiant”, “necrotic”, “bludgeoning”,”fire”, and so on. The +1 Mace does Bludgeoning damage, but it is a magic item and therefore does so as a magical attack. Hence it bypasses the resistance to “bludgeoning damage from non-magical attacks”.
